Key Figures in Medieval Europe
Key Figures in Medieval Europe

Author: Richard K. Emmerson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 780

ISBN-13: 1136775188

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From emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, Key Figures in Medieval Europe brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the on-going series, the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, these A-Z biographical entries discuss the lives of over 575 individuals who have had a historical impact in such areas as politics, religion, or the arts. Individuals from places such as medieval England, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, and Scandinavia are included as well as those from the Jewish and Islamic worlds. A thematic outline is included that lists people not only by categories, but also by regions. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages website.

Routledge Revivals: Key Figures in Medieval Europe (2006)
Routledge Revivals: Key Figures in Medieval Europe (2006)

Author: Richard Emmerson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13: 1351681680

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First published in 2006, Key Figures in Medieval Europe, brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the series, Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, these A-Z biographical entries discuss the lives of over 575 individuals who have had a historical impact in such areas as politics, religion, and the arts. It includes individuals from places such as medieval England, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, and Scandinavia, as well as those from the Jewish and Islamic worlds. In one convenient volume, students, scholars, and interested readers will find the biographies of the people whose actions, beliefs, creations, and writings shaped the Middle Ages, one of the most fascinating periods of world history.

Moving Meditations
Moving Meditations

Author: Callie Drozinski

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2024-07-02

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13:

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While loving the Lord with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength, we can be drawn into a deeper relationship with Him by moving our bodies to experience the presence of the Holy Spirit while becoming less self-focused and more Christ-focused. Through scriptures, devotions, breath exercises, and movements demonstrated with clear images, registered yoga instructor Callie Drozinski shares inspiring tools that invite believers to relieve stress, calm their busy minds, and find relief from physical pain in order to love God, themselves, and others more like Jesus did. Through her instructions, participants will practice specific exercises and stretches, focus their minds, and pray the scripture as they move and breathe in each posture to open the heart and soul, worship God, and ultimately find healing. Moving Meditations shares scriptures, movements, and devotions that encourage believers to exercise, stretch, and pray with Christ at the center to find healing for the heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Dante's Performance
Dante's Performance

Author: Francesco Ciabattoni

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-08-05

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 3111406490

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Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dante's Commedia which reveal elements inspired byprocessions, pageants, liturgical drama, psalm singing, or dance performance. The sacred poem finds influence in medieval theories of the performing arts as well as actual performances which Dante would have seen in churches or town squares. Dante's Performance opens a new perspective from which to consider the Commedia: Dante expected his contemporary readers to recognize references to and echoes of psalms, sacred plays, and performative practices. Twenty-first-century readers are tasked with reconstructing a cultural framework which allows us to grasp those same textual references. From the dramatization of the harrowing of hell in Inferno IX, to Beatrice's celebratory return on top of Mount Purgatory, to the songs of the blessed, this study connects Dante's language to coeval theoretical and practical texts about performance. If hell is "the Middle Age's theatrum diaboli," purgatory stages a performed purification through songs and acting, while paradise offers the spectacle of blessed spirits within the heavenly spheres as an aid to human understanding (Par. IV 28-39).